According to experts, often violated rules for the production and storage of water that affect its quality. To the consumer the water is already comes with the “updated” part. Often it is different from stated on the label. For example, “children’s” water in the composition, as a rule, no different from the usual.
the Greatest issues to the quality of water in 19-liter bottles. According to experts, in the best case it was drawn from the tap. Often bottles of these volumes filled with spring or river water. The most that happens with it before selling – filtering.
“This business is highly profitable and growing, so bottled water is often counterfeited and falsified. Well, if the water just poured from the tap and not from a source of industrial water”, – said the head of the product group “Water” Center for the development of promising technologies (CRPT) Nikolay Gladkov. According to various estimates, Russians on average consume 25-45 litres of bottled water a year. For comparison, in Europe this indicator exceeds 100 liters.
to Protect consumers will allow the implementation of mandatory labeling – with its help it is possible to protect a legitimate business seriously increase market share and revenues.
an Experiment on the marking of mineral water was launched in Russia on 1 April 2020. One month to the experiment, which will last until March 1, 2021, joined 28 bottled water manufacturers, two importers and six retailers. The informal sector, according to various estimates, took at least a quarter of the market. After the introduction of mandatory labelling to hide in the shade of the water producers will not be able to – the way each bottle will be seen from the filling machine to the cash register in the store.
